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Challenger Disaster

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An investigation through the technical descriptions and analysis behind the structural failure  , A n evolutionary desire to journe y to the unknown is the most distinctive characteristic of mankind from other species. Leading to that role, NASA’s space shuttle Challenger was the second shuttle to reach space and completed 9 missions with success. On the other hand, Challenger was also NASA's darkest tragedy. On its 10th launch, on Jan. 28, 1986, the shuttle exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, killing the seven crew members. In addition to several impacts on different subjects, the disaster became a crucial milestone for humans examination process about understanding the nature. Regarding these significant impacts of the 1986's Challenger Spacecraft disaster on American society and the entire human race, this attempt of fooling the nature should be investigated through the technical descriptions and analysis behind the structural failure, the engineering ethics concerning t

Global Catastrophic and Existential Risks

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" Our environment, and I mean                             our man-made world of machines, artificial constructs, computers, electronic systems, interlinking homeostatic components-all of this is, in fact beginning more and more to possess what the earnest psychologists fear the primitive sees in his environment: animation. In a very real sense our environment is becoming alive, or at least quasi-alive, and in ways specially and fundamentally analogous to ourselves ." Philip Kindred Dick  " There is infinite hope, but not for us ."                                                                                                            Franz Kafka

Spaceship Earth

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As it is stated in one of the Heinlein's books, " have a spacesuit will travel! ", but is that enough to cooperate with space, knowing few about the Earth's ecology?

Brave New World, Dystopian Views

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"Savage - But isn't it natural to feel there's a God? Controller - As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to ." Aldous Huxley, 1932

Science Fiction as a Technological Spectacle

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" I think clearly there is a problem with people who are not paying attention with their eyes. They're listening. And they don't get much from listening to this film. Those who won't believe their eyes won't be able to appreciate this film ." Stanley Kubrick 2001: A Space Odyssey

Time in Science Fiction

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"His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching. " Robert A. Heinlein

Interstellar, Role of Fiction in Science and Technology

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" Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. " Dylan Thomas, 1914 - 1953